I am in love with the green earth.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.